Youtube FAILS!!!

Well, well, would you look at this - Youtube, the worlds largest video sharing website (as I'm sure any seeing person could have told you), went down today for the first time since it launched 3 years ago.

To add to this already triumphant failure on youtubes part, they had the audacity to tell us that they were adding new features to the site, and this was the reason for the downtime - LIES!! It has been confirmed that a database problem caused this.

Youtube isn't exactly "free" either. They host adds on the more popular videos. So from my point of view (and the view of the millions of like-minded people out there) I pay for the services they offer (video sharing) by subjecting myself to these advertisments. I have even clicked on a few of them, contributing over $2 worth since they began. Since I am paying for these services I think it's only fair that I can expect a certain degree of reliability.

Youtube entered the sector of video sharing and should not have done so for a "fee" if it wasn't prepared to accept and live up to the responsibilities that come with it.

Lets take for example a man named Norman. Now Normans day hasn't been going so great - His wife left during the night, and she's taken his children with her, one boy and one girl. Norman has gone through the whole day wondering, worrying and simply stressing out. He decides to take a break - there's nothing he can do about it afterall. He is missing his children dearly, perhaps watching the video of them playing together at their grandmothers might lift his hopes a little - now where was it again? Oh yeah, on youtube. He enters the url "y..o..u..t..u..b..e.....c..o..m" - what's this?! Why isn't it working? He tries again - somethings wrong! "WHY WON'T YOU WORK YOU PIECE OF S**T!!" he yells. He tries again - nothing. He begins to pull his hair. He tries again.............that was the last straw. He has a breakdown and he commits suicide.

There are further repercussions here - for instance, the boy grows up to becomes a heroin addict and the girl enters the profession of prostitution.

Youtube is owned by google, who no doubt already have plenty of blood on their hands, so this sort heart breaking story won't touch them at all.

These guys are supposed to be the internet leaders, and yet they seem to have trouble keeping a website up for more than half an hour. Is this a preview of things to come? Big problems often start small. Perhaps there will be me a momentous "Google Crash" causing an even greater impact on society than recent histories stock market crashes or perhaps even having catostrophic effets similar to those that were suspected from the millenium bug - remember that?! After all, who doesn't rely on google for something - many rely on google for an income or to help grow there business. What would happen if google and all its subsidiaries just ceased operating - The outcome would be disastrous.

The only possible course of action is to rid google from our lives. We must begin by using other search engines more frequently, yahoo for instance. Then we must stop using googles subsidiary websites such as youtube and blogger. And finally we must not click on or host adsense ads. For now though, and just for now, I'll leave my blog where it is and keep my google adwords up as a reminder of the dangers that google holds.

Shame on you google. Your mission to destroy our lives has been foiled. How it's time to accept responsibility for your actions!